Doctoral Student
dtsuell@umich.edu
Political Theory
Education/Degree:
BSc, Political Science, History, Belmont University, 2013
MA, Social Science Research, University of Chicago, 2014
About
I am a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Michigan, focusing on Political Theory and African Studies. My work focuses on critical social and political theory, comparative political theory, and African politics and political thought. My work is also highly influenced by political and historical anthropology, and my past research focused on the contested meaning and purpose of traditional ceremonies in northern Zambia. I am particularly interested in modes of political membership and discourse; critiques of modernity and development; and the relationship among memory, temporality, and political agency, particularly as they relate to (neo-)colonialism, capitalism, and movements that oppose them. Currently, I am interrogating the history and role of the idea of progress as it has been deployed to impede or promote emancipatory, democratic postcolonial politics.
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